Douglas Light cowrote The Trouble With Bliss, the screen adaptation of his debut novel, East Fifth Bliss. The film stars Brie Larson, Michael C. Hall, and Peter Fonda. He is the author of the novel Where Night Stops, the story collection Blood Stories, and of Girls in Trouble: Stories, which received the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. His writing has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. For more information, visit his website: